Community attitudes toward birth fathers' motives for adoption placement and single parenting

Family Relations

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 535-546

  Miall, Charlene E ^a   March, Karen ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adoption; Birth fathers; Community attitudes; Gender; Single parenthood

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844529484     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2005.00341.x     Document Type: Review

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